Odd Einar HaugenProfessor, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature,
University of Bergen, Norway

Odd Einar Haugen (b. 1954) is professor of Old Norse philology at the
University of Bergen, Norway (Cand.philol. in 1982, Dr.philos. in 1992).

He was editor of Nordica Bergensia from 1993-1995, and edits Maal og
Minne (since 1995- , with Kjell Ivar Vannebo, University of Oslo).

He was head of the research project editing medieval manuscripts at the
Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, 2000-2001, serves as chairman of the
Menota board (since 2001-) and is co-founder of the Medieval Unicode
Font Initiative (since 2001-).

He has written articles in scholarly journals and anthologies, made
audio and video lectures featuring Old Norse material, created
computer-based exercises, and also made two Runic fonts (Gullskoen for
the younger futhark, 1996, and Gullhornet for the older futhark, 2001).